Re: Consolechars Question
On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 10:42:24PM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote:
> [Sorry for the late post.]
> On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 10:05:41AM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 12:55:06AM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote:
> > > That isn't one of the options. Do you mean en_US.UTF-8?
> > Yes.
>
> Please be careful when pasting in the posts, it is hard to pick config
> errors.
>
> > > Ummm what is the output of:
> > > apt-cache policy {kbd,console-data,console-setup,console-tools}
> >
> > Interesting. My output is identical to yours except for console-setup
>
> Identical? Surely the http:// entry is different.
>
> > which shows 1.28 is installed. Having never used apt-cache policy I read
> > the man page. From the entry I expected a file /etc/preferences. This
> > does not exist so I was unsure how to change console-setup.
>
> > I had not yet run consolechars -d. I did so and ran the
>
> Why run consolechars -d?
>
> > apt-cache policy {kbd,console-data,console-setup,console-tools}
> > command again. The output was unchanged but the characters used to
> > indicate threading in mutt and the characters representing bullets in
> > the output of man apt-cache were changed!
>
> > Amusing, what?
>
> It is amusing that you think it would.
>
> What is the output of:
> grep -v ^# /etc/console-tools/config
BLANK_TIME=30
BLANK_DPMS=off
POWERDOWN_TIME=30
APP_CHARSET_MAP=utf8
APP_CHARSET_MAP_vc1=utf8
APP_CHARSET_MAP_vc2=utf8
APP_CHARSET_MAP_vc3=utf8
APP_CHARSET_MAP_vc4=utf8
SCREEN_FONT=uni3-TerninusBold16
>
> and:
> locale
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=
>
> Also if you start mutt like
> chrisb@box:~$ LANG=C mutt
>
> You should see the symbols ok?
Nope, still the same old funny symbols.
Tom
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